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| The Fund for a Nuclear-Free World is a new campaign to raise at least $1.5 million for NIRS/WISE's essential work over the next year. This campaign will pay for NIRS/WISE's efforts to intervene in four major nuclear licensing cases before the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to engage in lawsuits and other activity to stop the "recycling" of radioactive materials into the conusmer marketplace, and to continue our work to stop the flawed Yucca Mountain atomic waste dump, monitor and expose the problems of aging nuclear reactors and all of our other campaigns. At the campaign kick-off dinner in Washington DC, April 15, Ed Asner, the honorary chairman of the Fund, gave a speech on the many reasons this Fund is needed. |
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Ed Asner at the April 15 kick-off dinner for the Fund for a Nuclear-Free World.
Read Ed's speech: An Angry Man Talks About Nuclear Power
NIRS/WISE is setting up partnerships with grassroots groups for joint membership/fundraising efforts. Click here for more information on the benefits of this arrangement and how your group can participate.
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Why is the Fund For A Nuclear-Free World needed now? 
Basic donor levels
July, 2005: View Our Eye-Catching New Ad! “You Can’t Shield Your Child From Radiation.” For information on how you can help place this ad, contact Linda Gunter at lindag@nirs.org
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Susan Clark hosted two events for NIRS – in March and June
Gretchen Wyler is a passionate advocate for NIRS as well as animal causes.
Amy Ray (left) and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, lobbied on the Hill against nuclear dumps.
Ani DiFranco led a lobbying effort then spoke out at her concert.
James Cromwell told a Capitol Hill audience he would block the tracks if waste trains start rolling. |
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A Gathering at Ed Begley’s
On March 21 st, about 50 eager listeners gathered at the home of Ed Begley Jr., many at the invitation of Nuclear-Free World Fund chairman, Ed Asner. The occasion was a NIRS presentation led by Michael Mariotte and Mary Olson focused on the potential for new reactor construction and high-level waste transportation routes through Los Angeles and other areas of Southern California. Many people from the NIRS west coast Core Group turned out - Gretchen Wyler, Susan Clark, James Cromwell, Ed Asner and of course the host, Ed Begley, its newest member. Begley even cooked the evening’s dinner himself with a spectacular vegan buffet. Begley’s wife Rachelle Carson also an actor, kindly co-hosted. Others attending included Alec Baldwin, already a long-time campaigner on the anti-nuclear front, comedienne Elayne Boosler, and husband and wife acting duo Bonnie Bartlett and Bill Daniels.
The previous afternoon, a gathering of environmental activists, writers, actors and producers took place at the lovely home of Susan Clark, a NIRS Core Group member, and her husband, actor and football legend Alex Karras. Michael Mariotte and Mary Olson were again the presenters.
The two events grossed about $10,000 for the Fund for a Nuclear-Free World.
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Hollywood Rerun
In June, NIRS director of development and media relations, Linda Gunter, returned to Los Angeles for a series of development meetings and another small fundraiser, this time at the swank apartment complex, the Legacy on Wilshire Boulevard. Hospitality was once again graciously provided by Susan Clark and Alex Karras. The fundraiser garnered close to $6,000 and Linda had meetings, lunches and dinners with, among others, Margery Tabankin at the Streisand Foundation, former movie of the week producer Steve Jaffe, now a litigation and media expert, Jamie Cromwell, Rabbi Leonard Beerman, NIRS newest big supporters, Claire and Robert Heron and Pat Krommer of Pax Christi.
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Lobby Day
Jamie Cromwell, a Core Group member, and his partner Joan MacIntosh, also an actor, flew to Washington DC to support a July 25 lobbying day organized by singer Ani DiFranco and her tour manager, Susan Alzner, who is a NIRS Board member. Cromwell was joined by the Indigo Girls, Winona LaDuke and Margene Bullcreek, and spoke passionately at a briefing to a couple hundred Capitol Hill staffers against plans to start transporting thousands of casks of highly radioactive waste across the country to a proposed dump on the Skull Valley Goshute reservation. After the briefing, the participants spent the entire day meeting with numerous Senate and Interior Department staffers to press their case against the energy bill and the proposed Private Fuel Storage project on Skull Valley Goshute land.
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NIRS to Bioneers
NIRS will have a presence at the popular Bioneers conference October 14-16 in northern California, a huge environmental gathering and important forum for NIRS to raise awareness about the detriments of nuclear power. Watch for a report here after the event. |
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